Match Report From Tim Tiger Slattery
Played in Connolly Park on Wednesday evening Stacks had their opening point from Noah Townsend and Rathmore drew level with a Fionn Murphy point followed by another point from a Ciaran Collins free.
Stacks had four points in a row from Daniel Kirby,two Paddy Lane frees and another Daniel Kirby point to make it a three point game after thirteen minutes.
Padraig Moynihan and a Ciaran Collins free for Rathmore made it a one point game.
Damien Hogan and Michael Dennehy traded points and Paddy Lane from play made it a two point game.
Sean McAuliffe with a goal and Ciaran Collins with two points had Rathmore ahead by three points 1-7 to 0-7 in the 25th minute.
Daniel Kirby with a point and within a minute Fionn Murphy replied for Rathmore,and deep in injury time Paddy Lane replied with a point for Stacks
Half time score Austin Stacks 0-9 Rathmore 1-8.
Donnacha Sayers from a free had Stacks opening point of the second half only for Ciaran Collins to goal for Rathmore to make it a four point game.
Stacks had four unanswered points from Conor Horan,Damien Hogan and two from Paddy Lane to level the match 2-8 to 0-14 in the 11th minute.
John Hughes and Daniel Kirby had points and within five minutes Rathmore had their third goal from the boot of Fionn Murphy to make it a three point game.
Stacks had three in row points from Paddy Lane,Shane Bastible and a Paddy Lane 45 to force extra time.
Full Time Score Austin Stacks 0-18 Rathmore 3-9.
Colm Browne and Conor Horan with points from play had Stacks ahead by two points at Half Time in Extra Time 0-20 to 3-9.
Paddy Lane had Stacks opening goal in the second half followed by points from Donnacha Sayers and Damien Hogan to make it a seven point game.
Michael Tansley pointed a 45 and a Conor Horan goal had the final score of the game.
Full Time Extra Time Austin Stacks 2-23 Rathmore 3-9
Austin Stacks Team: Michael Tansley (0-1/45,Sean Heaslip,Ruairi O’Connell,James Fisher,Cian Dillane,Luke Casey,Sean Og Brosnan,Cillian Litchfield,Colm Browne (0-1),Noah Townsend (0-1),Conor Horan Capt (1-2),Daniel Kirby (0-4),Paddy Lane (1-8,3f,1/45),Shane Bastible (0-1),Damien Hogan (0-3).
subs; Donnacha Sayers (0-2,1f) for Colm Browne,Padraig O’Halloran for Noah Townsend,Thomas Deregee for Shane Bastible,Colm Browne foe Cian Dillane,Evan Foley for Cillian Litchfield,Sean Moynihan for James Fisher.
Referee Denis Kennelly Moyvane
